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<h1>FAQs</h1>

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<h2>MCR and Café Owners – How to get your café noticed!</H2><p>

Melbourne Coffee Review (MCR) has been an active participant in the celebration of specialty coffee and cafes since 2004. In those years we have fielded over 5000 bolg posts and comments, produced two books on the top cafes and had over 100,000 of our iPhone application downloaded by coffee lovers around the globe (about 100,000 and counting).<p>

One of the key ingredients to our success is the relationship we have with café owners and their staff. With that in mind, keeping up to date with what’s happening in all the cafes is no mean feat.<p>

Coffee brands change, baristas move on, new owners, opening times, the list goes on. We have therefore engineered our systems so that café owners can ‘claim‘ and update their own records on our system and that it feeds straight out to the smart phone platforms and the web. Here are the key things you can do as a Café Owner to get your café on MCR and noticed by the world:<p>


1.	Get the cafe on the Phone and Web Platforms by nominating it as a HotShot café via MCR. Make sure as much of the info is complete. Once approved, log in and claim the café, and update any additional info you can. If it is high quality it will get on our phone applications as well as our web site.<br>

2.	Next, get your customers voting on the café (see how to vote). High votes will result in a review. That will get you hotshot status if you are good. Your tag then will read Hotshot along with your listed bean rating.<br>

3.	Focus on your great coffee and get your customers commenting on the cafe via Twitter, FB and our web site.<br>

<B>VOTING</b><p>
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1. Cafes need to be ‘nominated’. This is done via the web site at no cost, (You’ll need to create user account). Once that is done you can vote on the web site and your friends can sms vote or log on and vote themselves.<BR>
2. If the cafe is already registered, you can vote via the web site or via sms.<BR>
3. you can only vote once via each channel for each cafe. So, two votes per cafe effectively.<BR>
4. SMS Voting is done by sending an SMS to +61 416 905 522 or 0416 905 522 with the unique code for the cafe in the text message. eg: ‘mcr123′ (upper or lowercase doesn’t matter).<BR>
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<b>Costs/Prices</b>

IS THE SMS WE SEND AT A PREMUM?<BR>
No!! standard sms costs, we pay for the response sms’s to yaz. yes, we are great like that!!
Claiming Your Café: No Charge, so we know we are communicating to the right person about MCR developments. Anyone can vote for your café.<p>

Subscribing as a Café owner: Yep, currently $29, gives you access to the main fields.<bR>
Subscribing as a café owner Premium: $99, gives you above +lets you update specials, and link in your twitter, facebook, and web address. (COMING SOON).<br>
Any inquiries can be forwarded to MCR on 3beans@melbournecoffeereview.com<p>


<b>CLAIMING A CAFE<BR></b><p>

Your cafe can appear on our systems as a nominee HotShot (aka Top 500).  Anyone can nominate it.  We go through each nomination weekly to assess whether the cafe info is complete enough to progress, and/or whether it is a double on the system.  Once it's up, the person who nominated it (ideeally the cafe) gets a confirmation email.  That means you can verify yourself as the owner by loginng into MCR, finding your cafe by search and then clicking on the 'this cafe has no owner' link.  we'll double check that it's you (maybe by phone and you are tagged as the owner.  



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